How distressingly human it is that some people want to build Zion and want an inheritance

in Zion, but don't want to keep the very laws that create Zion.

Just like saying, I want to live in the Lord's Kingdom, but I want to do it my way.

That's what was happening to some people who went to build Zion and Missouri, and that

is the context behind one of the sections of the Doctrine and Covenants that we will

look at today.

Welcome friends to Meridian Magazine's Come Follow Me podcast.

Today we'll study Doctrine and Covenants sections 85 through 87 in a lesson called

Standee in Holy Places.

We have mentioned before that we used to live on a street that backed our house in Virginia

called Zion.

You could say in fact that we lived not in Zion, but on it.

Nevertheless, for having the name it was not like the Holy City that God's people are

commanded to build.

You could say all day you were building Zion or lived in Zion, and it wouldn't be Zion.

Why?

Because we as a community weren't living the laws of Zion.

Men is the place designed by God for all of his children to live in peace and joy, where

they can attain the utmost of their potential and possibility, where they dwell in purity and

oneness, living with a sense of abundance and love, which is far different than our earthly

lives.

Foremost, to our understanding of building Zion, is that there is a heavenly order and practice

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